We are reimagining liberated futures with Black Educators.
You belong here.
Our Mission
Liberated Educators Lab reimagines liberated futures with Black educators and their families by centering storytelling, wellness, and research. We are a movement hub where educators can be well, share their voices, and contribute to research that nurtures collective healing and generational transformation.
Storytelling. Healing. Research.
Storytelling
We center the lived experiences and brilliance of Black educators through narrative, oral history, and collective memory.
Wellness
We create restorative spaces where Black educators can rest, reconnect, and reimagine thriving beyond fatigue.
Research
We transform stories into knowledge that shapes policy, wellness, and liberatory practices across education.
Our Podcast
The Exit Interview: A Podcast for Black Educators exists to document and honor the lived experiences of Black educators who have chosen to leave the profession. This award-winning podcast is grounded in archival justice; the podcast uplifts their stories as a powerful form of truth-telling, healing, and resistance. By centering Black voices and their reasons for leaving and staying, it sparks critical conversations about wellness, racial battle fatigue, and what it truly takes to transform educational spaces into ones where Black educators can thrive.
Our Work
The Lab’s work lives across five pillars that guide our storytelling, training, research and wellness programs.
Healing & Archival Justice
We preserve and uplift the lived experiences of Black educators through podcasts, oral histories, and community-centered exhibitions.
Speaking & Training
We deliver keynotes, workshops, and professional learning rooted in racial justice, healing, and educator sustainability.
Healing & Wellness
We design restorative spaces, virtual and in-person, where Black educators can rest, reconnect, and reimagine liberated futures.
Consulting Partnerships
We support schools, districts, and organizations in building equity-centered systems that honor educator well-being and transform culture.
Digital Products
We create journals, guides, tools, and reflection resources that extend healing and storytelling beyond the room.
Upcoming Events
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Melanated Book Exchange
02/15/2026 10:00 AM-2:00 PM
Urban Symbiosis - Aurora, CO
A book swap for folks of Color! Bring a book by or for folks of Color and get two books for and by folks of Color for free! Not able to attend? Find out how else to get involved!
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Podcast and Pause: An Unbook Club for Black Educators
Sign-up for the March Cohort Starts January 16th!
Our unbook club is back and better than ever! Using our award-winning podcast as the “book,” we’ve created something powerful, a virtual space where Black educators come to pause, exhale, and connect.
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Black Teacher Recess
Coming Soon!
It’s time for recess, but make it Black! Want to find out when our recess events are happening? Sign up for our newsletter to get all the updates.
Voices From The Lab
"Talking through it with someone who understands is healing. I was able to extract certain feelings and put them outside of myself, look at them and find a better place for them to live. I will be forever grateful to you Dr. Asia Lyons!"
-Sherinda Bryant, Podcast Guest
"It is a very powerful space of belonging. There are many layers of shared identity."
-Arvian Haper, Podcast & Pause Participant
“When I showed up the first month, I knew this was exactly what I needed.”
-Zelda Alao, Black Educator Wellness Cohort Participant
“I am always in awe of your interview skills and how you inspire me to reflect deeply on the work I love, Radical Self-Care and Warm Demander Teachers.”
-Dr. Franita Ware, Podcast & Pause Participant
“As always, it’s a joy to work with Dr. Lyons! She has been a major as we build a space for Black educators in DC.”
-Caroline Pryor, Non-profit Partner
Research That Centers Black Educators
Our research partnerships transform the lived experiences of Black educators into collective knowledge. Through community-centered studies, oral history analysis, and frameworks like racial battle fatigue, we illuminate what supports educator thriving and what harms it. This work informs policy, wellness practices, and systems-level change across education.
We Support Organizations In Exploring:
Racial Battle Fatigue & Educator Wellness
Sustainability
Family Systems & the ripple effects of racism
Archival storytelling as data
Conditions that help Black educators remain in the profession